Islamic State extremists hit 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud with bulldozers
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Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Thomas Luny’s “Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron…”
Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron, Commanded by Don Juan de Langara, Near Cape St. V. From our 1980s sold archives … a fabulous British naval battle scene by Thomas Luny that was painted in 1782. … More…
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook– to each their own. If you are not a fan of what Jerry Saltz posts, then do not follow him. I am sure he loves all the additional PR he is … More…
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Gifts $50 Million Art Collection to Harlem Kids
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus has spent the past fifty years creating an impressive art collection, roughly valued between $10 and $50 million. After watching a segment on 60 Minutes about the Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization devoted to helping Harlem’s youth … More…
Koons and Sherman offer up limited-addition works to US government
Contemporary artists, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman will donate new works in limited editions of 50 to American embassies and consulates around the world. Koons’s prints and Sherman’s photographs will be unveiled in Washington DC in April where the embassies … More…